Monthly Archives: August 2018

This award-winning Canadian production skilfully directed by Sarah Polley is a successful adaptation of Alice Munro’s short story “The Bear Came over the Mountain”. It is the story of couple married for 50 years who suddenly have to experience Alzheimer’s, … Continue reading →

Now here’s a classic which really deserved restoring. This 1946 post-WWII-war British film by the famous Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger direction-production team is about a British aviator (David Niven) who has been shot down, but in the process, has … Continue reading →

Plus ca change. A century on, Eliot’s women stir pots in vacant lots, live next door to me whenever there’s an occasion. I walk over in my trunks, tee and sandals carrying a water can for my flowers to the … Continue reading →

(bust on my bedroom English literature bookshelf) There are many quotable lines and speeches taken from Shakespeare: “Beware the Ides of March”, “It was Greek to me” , “Romeo, Rome, wherefore art thou Romeo?”, but some have a greater ring … Continue reading →

(A Good Guy and Hero, Notwithstanding) (again), this time in Victoria. I’ll let the Globe and Mail today have the last word of this action: “That’s why Victoria’s decision contains an undermining hypocrisy. Even if we removed every totem of … Continue reading →

Full-page newspaper ad proclaiming Dispensing Knowledge. I think not. How much knowledge does it take to mindlessly buy a dooble, stick it in your mouth, light it and sit around on your ass and just inhale.? A more accurate, truthful … Continue reading →

Just waiting for the first attack when all the power grids go out and the world is cast into permanent darkness. (Thank you military nations and your continuing desire for dominance and control.) I confidently predict the worldwide panic and … Continue reading →

(From awakening student reader to textbook author and poet: A quest begins at the back of a grade 12 English classroom deep in the poetry of Hamlet….) Much of what has given pleasure to me from age 16 on has been … Continue reading →

playing to a racist base. Many people in the States are openly racist. And race relations in the U.S. have been turned back 60 years. Emmett Till’s grave sign has been repeatedly shot up. There are Jim Crow elements starting … Continue reading →